{"id":152,"date":"2010-09-22T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/?p=152"},"modified":"2015-11-03T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:01:15","slug":"phantoms-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/phantoms-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantoms of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phantoms of the Past<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phantoms of the past<br \/>\nTransform to fears of the future;<br \/>\nA fear of giving,<br \/>\nA fear of loving and living.<\/p>\n<p>As I sit in my own corner of the world<br \/>\nWithin my mind shadows dance to well played tunes.<br \/>\nThey surge with time and pierce my soul to the core.<br \/>\nMy anguish rises up and echoes in the emptiness of my heart.<br \/>\nBut I still carry on.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any meaning to my existence?<br \/>\nAny purpose to what I say or do<br \/>\nAs if sentenced to an eternal purgatory,<br \/>\nI go on living a dead man&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>And if by some small chance<br \/>\nMy sentence is finally reprieved,<br \/>\nThen my angel of light will come to me<br \/>\nTo chase away these specters of the night<br \/>\nAnd allow me to live and love again.<\/p>\n<p>copyrighted 1989, Roger Gibby<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>This poem was written during a period in my life where I was trying to move on with my life and the memories of past relationships were holding me back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phantoms of the Past Phantoms of the past Transform to fears of the future; A fear of giving, A fear of loving and living. As I sit in my own corner of the world Within my mind shadows dance to well played tunes. They surge with time and pierce my soul to the core. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[60,57,59,58,55,63,62,56,54,61],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriblings","tag-anguish","tag-fear","tag-hope","tag-hurt","tag-love","tag-misery","tag-moving-on","tag-pain","tag-poetry","tag-survival","count-0","even alt","author-spacecowboy","last"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UALx-2s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}